Six pointed brushes wired to an ARTIST BRUSH card marked HIGH QUALITY and Made In China. Clear moulded handles, nickel ferrules, and golden synthetic heads that taper to a point. The six run from a fine liner at one end to a full round at the other.

The round is the shape that draws. Its point puts down a line as thin as the hair itself, and the same head pressed down releases its whole belly for a broad stroke — one brush covering the full range between an outline and a fill, controlled by nothing but how hard you press. That is why a set of rounds is the one most people should own first.

The finest brush in this pack is worth singling out. A liner that thin is what draws whiskers on an animal, the veins in a leaf, the outline round a lettering job, a signature in a corner. Children who have only ever had a fat school brush usually cannot believe the difference it makes to the last five minutes of a painting.

At Rs. 250 for six — about Rs. 42 a brush — this is a set to be used rather than protected. That matters more than it sounds. A child who is told to be careful with an expensive brush paints carefully and badly; a child with a cheap set that can be replaced experiments, and experimenting is the only way anyone learns what a round can do.

Be honest about the trade. A cheap synthetic point loses its tip sooner than a good sable or taklon, and it loses it fastest if the brush is left standing in water or if paint dries inside the ferrule. Rinse them out, draw each head through your fingers to reform the point, and dry them flat. Looked after that way they last far longer than the price suggests.

We stock the flat version of this pack at the same Rs. 250, and the two together cover almost everything a school project asks for — rounds for the drawing and the detail, flats for the backgrounds and the straight edges. Cash on Delivery is available across Pakistan.

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